All about the song "Road" by AuktsYon: history of creation, popularity

How does popularity come to songs? There is still no definite answer to this. Some compositions of even famous world artists can be long forgotten by the public, unless one day it appears in the public eye again.

That's what happened to the most famous song by a rock band Auctioneerwhich, according to many of their fans, became the best in their work. Today in our article we will look at the history of the song "The Road." as well as her raving popularity, which was given to her by Alexei Balabanov's film.

The story behind the creation of a future hit

The story of the song's creation began в 1991 year, when Leonid Fedorov had just thought up an idea for a future hit while walking around Hamburg. Work on the future album, which was called "Bird."The album took two years to complete: it was impossible to finish the album completely due to the beginning of the revolution in the country. In general, as Fedorov notes, the album turned out just right about freedomthat the country needed at a difficult time.

In Hamburg, Fedorov sketched the melody for "The Road", and lyricist Dmitry Ozersky wrote the lyrics to the music. On their return to Russia, the musicians finished working on a song.

Unexpected boom in popularity - how "The Road" became a "well-worn classic" after the release of "Brat-2"

After the song "The Road" was released in 1994, it was a bit forgotten by fans. It was only in 2000 that more and more people started talking about it, thanks to the then released film by Alexey Balabanov "Brother 2.". Fans of the first part with joy plunged into a new story about the unforgettable for many years after the release of films hero Danil Bagrov, and at the same time, in order to maximally resemble their idol, listened to tracks from the cult action film. Thus, AuktsYon's song "The Road" became most listened to the band's theme song, and it still is.

Since then, AuktsYon has been performing their iconic composition practically at every live concert.

"Deeper than it seems" - lyrical meaning.

One can think about the meanings of songs of such an unconventional band as AuktsYon almost infinitely. Fans of the band did not ignore everyone's favourite "The Road".

There is an opinion that such a lyrical composition of AuktsYon became practically a hymn for people who are closer to the subject matter "prison romance". Rockers could not have thought that their mesmerising melody and rhythm, referring more to the romanticisation of the "zone", would appeal to people who love the chanson.

When considering the meaning of the word "road" in a song by a rock band, the first thing you might think of is that this very road is the life of a simple person who just unfamiliarly to feel himself where there is no criminality. His comfort begins where he cannot be reproached for such things, because everyone in the "zone" is connected with it in one way or another.

The second meaning of the word is more profound. "Road" is perceived as freedomBut this freedom is limited for the hero by barbed wire. It is clear that on the outside a man cannot cope with the freedom that is understood in the consciousness of the majority. For him, it is his own - the one that seems limited to others, and to him - to him. simple и comprehensible.

The looped lines of the song, where the protagonist is "himself both sky and moon," suggest an understanding of this as a metaphor for the fact that the life of the text's protagonist is such a closed circle that, no matter how his life turns, girdles him and the returns to the "zone". She is waiting for him, as if knowing that even if he were free, he would not be able to withstand such a world, which he does not understand, and would come back back. The musical content of the composition precisely creates the entourage of such a long journey, which ultimately lock. Even in freedom, which does not seem so colourful, his old life does not let him go: it seems that the hero will stay there, on this "bare earth" - about the zone. The motif of deaths - The hero speaks of the earth chewing him up, and further his "road" goes into the clouds, and the hero himself "flies somewhere" without realising himself.

One last thing: a little bit about the Bird album

The album on which the iconic song "The Road" was released in 1993. Leonid Fedorov himself dislikes This record, complaining not about the bad songs, but about their unsightly recording. It is quite understandable - the whole album was written during the coup d'état in Russia, when the August "putsch" took place. During the turbulent time, the musicians moved to their friend's dacha and created there. The musicians would describe this time as personal freedom: it's horrible outside, and they had their own freedom.

At the time when the material for the album was finally ready, AuktsYon were touring Europe. The recording was going hard: at first it was supposed to be fully realised in Hamburg, but the musicians decided to overwrite in Moscow. "Bird" saw the light only by the end of October 1993. So the album exists till now in different versions: one was made by в Hamburgand the other one в Moscow.

Fans still mark this album as the most "light." of the band's entire discography. The album ranked 2nd place in the rating of "50 Best Russian Albums of All Time" according to Afisha magazine, and the song "Doroga" was included in the top 100 Best Russian Rock Songs of the Twentieth Century.